Office for Students responds to higher technical qualifications review
The OfS responds to the Secretary of State for Education’s announcement of a review of Level 4 and 5 qualifications.
Last updated: 08 Jul 2019
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Teaching excellence framework 2019: results announced
There’s some coverage of TEF following the Year 4 announcements.
Last updated: 20 Jun 2019
Media coverageOffice for Students announces results of TEF 2019
Office for Students announces results of TEF 2019
Last updated: 19 Jun 2019
Press releaseMake degree apprenticeships a force for social mobility, says the Office for Students
Degree apprenticeships are growing significantly and offer a route to increased social mobility, but more work is needed to realise their potential.
Last updated: 08 Mar 2019
Press releaseDegree apprenticeships: A viable alternative?
Degree apprenticeships provide an alternative route to a higher education qualification, with on-the-job learning and a salary instead of tuition fees. So why is this option so little known? Why do relatively few learners take it up? And can we expect this to change?
Last updated: 08 Mar 2019
PublicationUnconditional offers: Serving the interests of students?
The steep rise in the numbers of unconditional offers made by universities and colleges to students applying to study with them has come under the spotlight in recent months amid concerns that it is having a negative impact on students. Are these concerns warranted? And if so, what should be done about them?
Last updated: 25 Jan 2019
PublicationIndependent reviewer of TEF asks for views
Dame Shirley Pearce, who is leading the independent review of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF), has invited views from all with an interest in the TEF.
Last updated: 18 Jan 2019
Our newsAnalysis of degree classifications over time: Changes in graduate attainment
This report provides an analysis of changes in the proportion of first and upper second class degrees awarded between 2010-11 and 2016-17.
Last updated: 19 Dec 2018
PublicationEngaging students in the TEF
To those in the UK higher education sector, student representation and engagement is one of the most important, and most unique, concepts that we work with.
Last updated: 17 Dec 2018
Blog postStrategic interventions in health education disciplines 2019 challenge fund: Innovations in recruitment to and delivery of healthcare courses
The Office for Students is offering new funding for projects which will develop innovative approaches to recruitment to, or delivery of, pre-registration higher education courses in nursing, midwifery and allied health subjects.
Last updated: 12 Dec 2018
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